Carlos' consists of studio experimentation. He can play guitar, bass, keys, drums, other stringed intstruments, and he composes using samples and sequncers quite frequently. everything is recorded digitally using cakewalk, cubase, acid, modplug, buzz, and a few other programs. Carlos' main instrument is guitar, and his influences range from Steve Vai to Django Reinhardt, and inlcude Michael Hedges.

General influences (in no particlar order) include:
Frank Zappa, Dream Theater, Chroma Key,
King Crimson, Richard D. James, Vivaldi, The Beatles, Bach,
Duke Ellington, Pink Floyd, Thelonious Monk, Tony Levin, Mendelssohn, and roughly 1,000 others...